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mircea_popescu: "I enjoy speaking at financial firms on human rationality." << there, your mystery's solved. he's doing the entertainment for vc teambuilding events.
mircea_popescu: so your theory'd be, fitting with the above, that this is what they called a "sensitive child" who is trying to assuage his existential vertigo by "taming" [pseudo]science to play the role of a sort of marketing ?
mircea_popescu: I’m not sure why you’d use persuasion/marketing as a shiny metaphor for science, other than its the theme of this chapter. ”If you know science you can manipulate people as if you were literally in control of them” seems like a broad, and mostly untrue claim.
mircea_popescu: This whole conversation feels ham fisted, Hariezer is consistently telling us about all the manipulative tricks they are both using. Its less a conversation and more people who just sat through a shitty marketing seminar trying to try out what they learned. WITH RAPE.
mircea_popescu: (dunno about yer lands, but that's exactly how kindergarten was done when i was 5ish)
mircea_popescu: very successful with a certain age range, mostly because well... the gals are itching for a trashing, but also kinda affraid it may hurt.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you know this sort - often comes out at the beach. tall, good looking kid, not a jock, has learned some poetry and gazes into the distance a lot.
mircea_popescu: in any case, .ro space has a coupla of these, "artists" that wish to be philosophers/scientists. the result is endless lol fountain.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the language is the message, here. guy's not writing down to anyone but himself.
mircea_popescu: If the Flare interpreter knows that "human" is a class defined in the module "people", then it knows to expect that the tag "arms" refers to an instance member with numeric content. This is how the Flare interpreter knows that 2 means the number 2 and not the string "2".
mircea_popescu: in what complang is it the case that you can't add stuff to code ?!
mircea_popescu: easily created), these properties are shared by Flare objects and Flare programs."
mircea_popescu: "Flare is based on XML. In dialects of LISP, both the program and the program data are represented as lists. In Flare, the program and program data, and ideally the program state, are all represented as well-formed XML. Because XML is annotative (additional sub-elements can be easily added to any parent element without destroying the structural integrity of existing data) and extensible (new sub-element types can be
mircea_popescu: ^ check it out, it allowed them to mix text with display rules, because xml.
mircea_popescu: right, that's what i;m saying. obviously cunt gets pounded. but all the pretense around it ? y ?
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with it, as a process, but the acultural approach to it... o brother.
mircea_popescu: or as that romanian dude put it, "hai c-am furat un negativ"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know that's an age honored thing in usia. which is why all the brouhaha over "intelle;ctual property" and "bla bla theft" is so funny for people who aren't either born yesterday or to stupid parents in the great plains. srsly, someone stole from murica ? what, christmas ?
mircea_popescu: then merge that with the "i failed and so nobody else should try it!" reversal of the "i tried and thus no one should criticize me" insanity...
mircea_popescu: d I’m too intelligent to look up to my parents the way that children are designed to do. My parents love me, but they don’t feel obliged to respond to reason, and sometimes I feel like they’re the children - children who won’t listen and have absolute authority over my whole existence. I try not to be too bitter about it, but I also try to be honest with myself, so, yes, I’m bitter.
mircea_popescu: "I’m too smart, Professor. I’ve got nothing to say to normal children. Adults don’t respect me enough to really talk to me. And frankly, even if they did, they wouldn’t sound as smart as Richard Feynman, so I might as well read something Richard Feynman wrote instead. I’m isolated, Professor McGonagall. I’ve been isolated my whole life. Maybe that has some of the same effects as being locked in a cellar. An
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lol you know the portrait that emerges is exactly that of the sort of kid i'd bust the nose of within a coupla days of being introduced ?
mircea_popescu: one could read treatises on learned topics written by anonymous americans cca 1800 to about the same effect.
mircea_popescu: it's... bad. it's bad in a literary sense, and it's arguably worse in a science sense.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are you saying he's just a very inept writer of [fan]fiction ?
mircea_popescu: it's just proof that people are endlessly stupid on their own terms.
mircea_popescu: listen, a large crowd of bearded idiots following the child prophet is no proof of the child's anything.
mircea_popescu: it seems improbable, much like crack whores are rarely sober actresses practicing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have little to no evidence of this. all i see is the text, and the text is truely appalling.
mircea_popescu: actually the cat doesn't even have to be dense per se, it could just be very hot.
mircea_popescu: but still, hot damn, semidoctus is becoming a byword for homo interneticus.
mircea_popescu: of course this argument falls apart once one considers that - according to various muppets cca 1900, "physics was a closed science", so by the logic above proposed everyone should be kept from nature itself as they muck it up.
mircea_popescu: no, but because acquiring a monkey-ish familiarity with material is a trivial task, which will then prevent an ambitious and inexperienced actor from actually learning anything.
mircea_popescu: never before have i realised the wisdom of the jews / early christians in keeping the books under key.
mircea_popescu: it's so fucking pervasive by now, they can extract it by simple aculturation.
mircea_popescu: exactly what it is. backed by nothing but the full faith and credit of the usg, in the shape of little bits of paper issued by Department of Harvard, The Stanford Agency scl etc.
mircea_popescu: and THAT is sure as fuck not implied by the form of any part of any "hamiltonian", w r hamilton's reproductive organs included.
mircea_popescu: however, if you add all the smarts people assign themselves and divide by the ... like i dunno, 5000 or so total iq points available for the bn or so english speakers, you roughly get infinity.
mircea_popescu: if you add all the money people think they're worth, and divide by all the value that actually exists, you only get a few degrees of magnitude out of the process.
mircea_popescu: that's a topic that desperately needs awareness, the bezzle's nothing compared to the igzzle.
mircea_popescu: where the fuck are the people holding up signs with "you are stupid" to raise awareness ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose it's unavoidable given an "educational system" that fails to teach anything but manages to impart absurd delusions of self worth and power, and completely destructured personal social relations.
mircea_popescu: every year shall bring more yarvin, yakudsky, yaranidiot.
mircea_popescu: i am slowly and unpleasantly realising that there will be no end of these ignare cvasi-intellectuals.
mircea_popescu: Poor, misguided random internet person- your donation to MIRI/LessWrong will not help save the world. Even if you grant all their (rather silly) assumptions MIRI is a horribly unproductive research institute- in more than a decade, it has published fewer peer reviewed papers than the average physics graduate student does while in grad school."
mircea_popescu: "I read the comments on an HPMOR chapter, which I recommend strongly against. I wish I could talk to several of the commentators, and gently talk them out of a poor financial decision.
mircea_popescu: "You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! That’s not just an arbitrary rule, it’s implied by the form of the quantum Hamiltonian! Rejecting it destroys unitarity and then you get FTL signalling!”
mircea_popescu: there's no substance to it past getting you to say that, just like there's no substance past oprah's skin color past getting black people to buy shit.
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> he posts a ton of extremely ambitious ideas i'd love to see him come through on one of them << you have to understand this is now, thanks to moldbug et all, an internet pose.